Fate and Destiny

Fate is not like a road whose path you have to follow, or a set of choices that your are waiting to make.

To me, fate is like an ocean. As it crashes on the rocks of the shore, it will slowly wear away anything that is put in it's path. Whatever we place in the sands at the edge of it will quickly be washed away. When it is peaceful, it gives us the most beautiful sunsets at the end of the day for us to enjoy together. When destiny is stormy, however, it comes at us with a force so overwhelming that it might kill us if we cannot figure out how to weather the storm.

But if we keep to the shores of fate, all we can do is wait for the next time it comes at us. For us to control our destiny, we must set sail on that ocean. We can chart our own path and force our journey across it's waves. Or we can set ourselves adrift and let the currents of destiny take us where they may. Either way, there are chances for storms that may sink us, and chances for calm winds that will empty our sails to slow our journey. We must learn to ride these waves and navigate the storms.

While it might be treacherous, we must set out across the water to find what we can. Otherwise we are forced to be content with what destiny washes up on our shores.

The Cops Got Me Drunk

I try to volunteer for the community as much as I can. Last year I tutored a nice lil 4th grader. I'm on one of the action teams for Young Professionals of Wichita. So when my cousin called and said that the cops need volunteers for the cadets to run sobriety tests on, I felt that it was my duty to my community to help out.

Well last night was the second time we got to go down to the training station and have to PoPo booze us up. It was a whiskey sour night so we reeked from cheap whiskey. Lucky for me, I have a mutant metabolism and in the course of 1 1/2 hours, got my BAC level from 1.26% down to 0.99%. Of course I was still way over the legal limit of 0.80%. I did fool one of the cadets, which I didn't do last time. So I would call it a victory, even though 4 out of 5 cops would have taken me to jail and gave me a DUI.

Back to the bar for some more practice.

So I'm Smarter Now, Right?

As some might have noticed, I haven't been here to update much. But I've had a very good reason. I went back to school to finish my degree (you could almost say start my degree for as much credit they've given me). I have been takin 3 classes this semester and it has made my life busy. However, tonight I finished my last final and I'm offically out of school until mid January. From how it looks right now, I probably got an A in Business Calculus, an A or B in Financial Accounting and a B in Intro to Psychology. They may not be the greatest, but it's damn good by my standards. Plus, work only says I got to get a C for them to pay for it. Suckas

The Russian Mafia Already Got Me

OK, So i joined the whole MySpace thing and got half-way literate on the ins and outs. In less than 48 hours, I get a message from some Russian chick in the worst broken english I have seen. It was so bad that I really couldn't make much sense of it with out getting a headache. It said something about nobelmen relatives, some cat, how she's going to send me photos of her fine Russian ass, and I think there was something about potatoes near the end. Whatever... If Roman's silly ass would ever add me, I'd have him check her out in person. That would freak the spammer out. Of course if she was for real, Roman would probably pimp her out before I could even see her.

Respect

Today I received an award for a project I was part of at work. The award is a Chairman's Award of Excellence for Raytheon's Supplier Diversity Program. As in Chairman of the Board... The big one.

Halloween Pics Are Up!

Beau has the pictures from the party now posted on the Redshoe Photo Album. Head over there and check out the fun and debauchery that was had by all. This was 2 in a row now, so get ready for the 3rd. You have plenty of time to pick up a costume... I'm already working on ideas.

While you are over at Redshoe, drop Beau a line and let him know what you think about the new layout.

Loathing the Kingdom Downtime

Well my current favorite game, Kingdom of Loathing went down 2 days ago and the entire community is waiting with baited breath to see what the outcome is. Now baited breath in the sense of tension, not the kind that smells like bad fish. Since we have nothing else to do while at work, I went and tried out some of the community websites. One is The Rye's KoL player personality test. Here's my results...

Midwest BeerFest

I spent my Saturday down at Century II this week. The Midwest Beerfest was this weekend and I finally got the schedule right to get to go. There were about 240 different beers from all the major and minor distributors here in Kansas. There were all the standards and most of the kansan micro-brews. There were quite a few new beers and off the wall ones that I had never seen or tried before. Stouts are still my favorite beer and the new one for me that I thought was pretty good was the Rouge Shakespeare Stout. I had to try all the hard ciders to compare it to Beau and I's home brew cider. They were all pretty good and I think we did really good for our first time too. None of them had much carbonation. The one that stood out above the rest was Woodchuck's Granny Smith Cider. There were two surprises for me, the Anheuser World Lager (yeah, as in Anheuser-Busch... like Budweiser) was actually pretty good. It was a nice hoppy ale, kind of like a Heineken. The other surprise was the Heineken Dark. It was decent, but that was about it. I'm already a Heineken fan, so I guess I expected too much from the Dark. I was good for a free beer, but I doubt that I would spend the money for it myself. The new discovery for this year was one that I have never heard of from a brewery called Unibroue out of Canada. They have this beer called Trois Pistoles (I think it means Three Pistols in French). This is a damn good beer, but the flavor is so different I can't really describe it well. I will definitely be buying some of these in the future.

Halloween Party Time!

The time has drawn near once again for a night of frights, fun and fdrinks... Ok, the drink thing was a stretch, but you can't blame for trying.

Time to dust off the pitchforks and phalluses (don't believe me? check out the pictures from last year) and press your best spiderwebs. I'm having another Halloween party and it's going to be a blast. Get a costume, get some booze and get your ass to my place on Saturday, Oct. 29th.

Bump, Bump... Is This Thing On?

Wow. I have completely ignored this for too damn long. Time to get back in the game...